... interesting point, and the point which is of most concern to us, is how Sappho has said what she has said. The poem directly begins with a personification of love, where the word "love" is written as "Love"(line 1). This implies that Sappho regards love as not as a mere feeling, but as ... Love, according to her, is ecstatic, as it "drives her on". She also describes love as the "loosener of limbs", which indicates that love, for Sappho, disables one from doing anything, because his/her limbs, or body parts, are loosened and inactive. The second, and ultimate, line of Sappho's ... further...

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